Comments for Yardley365 http://www.yardley365.com A Daily Photoblog from Yardley, Pennsylvania Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:12:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Add Event by Jill Kwasny http://www.yardley365.com/add-event/comment-page-1/#comment-3981 Jill Kwasny Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:12:35 +0000 http://www.yardley365.com/?page_id=18769#comment-3981 FREE EVENT Join Chef Jean Pierre and Registered Dietitian Jill Kwasny For another entertaining and Informative program at our Yardley and West Windsor Stores The Chef’s Rules And The Dietitian’s Tools Thursday, September 22nd Yardley McCaffrey’s at 10:00 AM West Windsor McCaffrey’s at 1:30 PM Please RSVP to Joan Tardy Joan.Tardy@Mccaffreys.com Or 215 752-9440 X139 FREE EVENT
Join Chef Jean Pierre
and
Registered Dietitian Jill Kwasny
For another entertaining and Informative program at our
Yardley and West Windsor Stores
The Chef’s Rules
And
The Dietitian’s Tools

Thursday, September 22nd

Yardley McCaffrey’s
at 10:00 AM

West Windsor McCaffrey’s
at 1:30 PM

Please RSVP to Joan Tardy
Joan.Tardy@Mccaffreys.com
Or 215 752-9440 X139

]]> Comment on Extensive Cleanup Effort Continues in Yardley After Earthquake by Agent Gabe http://www.yardley365.com/2011/08/23/extensive-cleanup-effort-continues-in-yardley-after-earthquake/comment-page-1/#comment-3980 Agent Gabe Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:52:02 +0000 http://www.yardley365.com/?p=19344#comment-3980 I'm glad to see your antique monitor is still intact :-) I’m glad to see your antique monitor is still intact :-)

]]> Comment on Out and About August 13th, 2011 by Cindy Kenton http://www.yardley365.com/2011/08/13/out-and-about-august-13th-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-3967 Cindy Kenton Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:25:28 +0000 http://www.yardley365.com/?p=19310#comment-3967 I enjoyed seeing your pictures of my former home town. When I visited Yardley last Oct., the Continental Taveran was being renovated. It's nice to see how the place looks completed. Your photo of Yardley Pizza reminded me that in the '60's and '70's this was Dick's Deli. I enjoyed seeing your pictures of my former home town. When I visited Yardley last Oct., the Continental Taveran was being renovated. It’s nice to see how the place looks completed. Your photo of Yardley Pizza reminded me that in the ’60′s and ’70′s this was Dick’s Deli.

]]> Comment on Yardley Pumping Station by mike http://www.yardley365.com/2011/08/07/yardley-pumping-station/comment-page-1/#comment-3940 mike Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:54:37 +0000 http://www.yardley365.com/?p=19312#comment-3940 JD - thanks for the comment... odd to be back there and not see the falls... I wonder if it has to do with the plans for development where Cold Springs is... I know there was talk of an adult community going up on that site. JD – thanks for the comment… odd to be back there and not see the falls… I wonder if it has to do with the plans for development where Cold Springs is… I know there was talk of an adult community going up on that site.

]]> Comment on Yardley Pumping Station by JD http://www.yardley365.com/2011/08/07/yardley-pumping-station/comment-page-1/#comment-3939 JD Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:57:13 +0000 http://www.yardley365.com/?p=19312#comment-3939 Back in the day you would pass by that on the way to "jump" off the dam falls, into the hole. How many remember that .... I believe that station probably had something to do in connection to the Bleachery. Those workings aren't that old actually. Haven't been back there in a while though ... Back in the day you would pass by that on the way to “jump” off the dam falls, into the hole. How many remember that ….
I believe that station probably had something to do in connection to the Bleachery. Those workings aren’t that old actually. Haven’t been back there in a while though …

]]> Comment on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008: Yardley, Abandoned by Marianne http://www.yardley365.com/2008/01/23/wednesday-january-23rd-2008-overgrown/comment-page-1/#comment-3914 Marianne Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:43:25 +0000 http://mlynn.org:8080/yardley365/wordpress/2008/01/23/wednesday-january-23rd-2008-overgrown/#comment-3914 Wasnt one of the long time owners a gym teacher at PHS? Didn't she use to tell stories of it being haunted? Wasnt one of the long time owners a gym teacher at PHS? Didn’t she use to tell stories of it being haunted?

]]> Comment on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008: Yardley, Abandoned by Gerre http://www.yardley365.com/2008/01/23/wednesday-january-23rd-2008-overgrown/comment-page-1/#comment-3910 Gerre Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:26:44 +0000 http://mlynn.org:8080/yardley365/wordpress/2008/01/23/wednesday-january-23rd-2008-overgrown/#comment-3910 Bucks County Courthouse in Doylestown is a good place to start to check land records. Also, in Philadelphia there are state records in their archives. I do genealogy and also use Ancestry.com for census records, land records and newspaper articles. Also, the Yardley News Archives might be hellpful. I lived in yardley from the 70s - 90 and one of my son's still lives there. We call that home for us as our children were raised there and we were active in the community. A wonderful place. I always loved that house, too. Dreamed of fixing it up to it's colonial splendor. Good luck with your research. If you would like any further help from me I'd be glad to do some searching for you. I do get to Yardley about every 2-3 months. Bucks County Courthouse in Doylestown is a good place to start to check land records. Also, in Philadelphia there are state records in their archives. I do genealogy and also use Ancestry.com for census records, land records and newspaper articles. Also, the Yardley News Archives might be hellpful. I lived in yardley from the 70s – 90 and one of my son’s still lives there. We call that home for us as our children were raised there and we were active in the community. A wonderful place. I always loved that house, too. Dreamed of fixing it up to it’s colonial splendor. Good luck with your research. If you would like any further help from me I’d be glad to do some searching for you. I do get to Yardley about every 2-3 months.

]]> Comment on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008: Yardley, Abandoned by JD http://www.yardley365.com/2008/01/23/wednesday-january-23rd-2008-overgrown/comment-page-1/#comment-3900 JD Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:38:03 +0000 http://mlynn.org:8080/yardley365/wordpress/2008/01/23/wednesday-january-23rd-2008-overgrown/#comment-3900 ... I take that back about a settlers cabin ... after checking out those neat photos again and looking at the property using Bings' birdseye, there are so many additions to the house, its almost mind boggling. It would be hard to tell what sections were built first or even in what order without much research. The middle section with the "front door" seems to have different sized stone and it has a large chimney. It looks like maybe 7 different additions to the home as well as two smaller homes/out buildings and the ruins of a very large barn that's closer to Afton and very visible in the winter. In addition to the property being a farm and quarry, if you go to Penn Pilots website, the aerial view from 1938 shows a very large evergreen plantation on the north side of the property. Many of these now overgrown trees can be seen today between the houses from Lafeyette over to University Drive. Also, speaking of ghost stories, as a teen, in the late '80's, I had a friend who lived on University Drive, and we would sneak onto the property with girls, entering from Yale, looking to get spooked. A couple of years later, we would shoot paintball on the eastern side and even sneak a few beers. There were people renting the property then, but nobody seemed to care if we used the fields ... The house was in much better shape then. In any event, hopefully the "Developer will do the right thing" and restore the home to a fine example of the past. Fingers crossed. … I take that back about a settlers cabin … after checking out those neat photos again and looking at the property using Bings’ birdseye, there are so many additions to the house, its almost mind boggling. It would be hard to tell what sections were built first or even in what order without much research. The middle section with the “front door” seems to have different sized stone and it has a large chimney. It looks like maybe 7 different additions to the home as well as two smaller homes/out buildings and the ruins of a very large barn that’s closer to Afton and very visible in the winter. In addition to the property being a farm and quarry, if you go to Penn Pilots website, the aerial view from 1938 shows a very large evergreen plantation on the north side of the property. Many of these now overgrown trees can be seen today between the houses from Lafeyette over to University Drive. Also, speaking of ghost stories, as a teen, in the late ’80′s, I had a friend who lived on University Drive, and we would sneak onto the property with girls, entering from Yale, looking to get spooked. A couple of years later, we would shoot paintball on the eastern side and even sneak a few beers. There were people renting the property then, but nobody seemed to care if we used the fields … The house was in much better shape then. In any event, hopefully the “Developer will do the right thing” and restore the home to a fine example of the past. Fingers crossed.

]]> Comment on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008: Yardley, Abandoned by JD http://www.yardley365.com/2008/01/23/wednesday-january-23rd-2008-overgrown/comment-page-1/#comment-3898 JD Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:43:14 +0000 http://mlynn.org:8080/yardley365/wordpress/2008/01/23/wednesday-january-23rd-2008-overgrown/#comment-3898 As a historical note: The land at Scammels corner was purchased from the original owner, Edward Nickleson sometime around the turn of the 19th century. Both the 1876 and 1891 cadastral maps of Lower Makefield both show E. Nickleson as the landholder. Nickleson was a very intriguing man and a very prominent member of the Yardley(ville) community who lived to a very old age. In addition to a large farm, Nickleson opened the Brownstone quarry on the property in 1816. This is the quarry located in the back of the Sandy Run Development. The quarry was noted throughout the land as one of the finest in producing structural grade brownstone. I don't know about foundations on the property from the late 16oo's, but all of the existing houses on the property were apparently erected with brownstone from the quarry, placing them from early to mid 1800's. The building style certainly seems in line with that. In viewing all of the buildings and while there are several apparent additions, there is no evidence of a "settlers cabin" in the construction anywhere, which could back a claim of early building on the property in the main or guest houses. Battles History of Bucks Co (A must read) in its Bio of Nickleson, states his father, a tailor in town, bought some portion of the land and erected a home. The 1876 map shows out structures down near the bottom portion of the property near the present location of the shopping strip. Maybe these were the original homestead, being closer to town. Who knows. In any event, the place must have been quite grand in its day .... just another shame on our community, along with Edgewood village, to allow historic buildings to crumble to nothing, almost always because of some bureaucracy. As a historical note:
The land at Scammels corner was purchased from the original owner, Edward Nickleson sometime around the turn of the 19th century. Both the 1876 and 1891 cadastral maps of Lower Makefield both show E. Nickleson as the landholder. Nickleson was a very intriguing man and a very prominent member of the Yardley(ville) community who lived to a very old age. In addition to a large farm, Nickleson opened the Brownstone quarry on the property in 1816. This is the quarry located in the back of the Sandy Run Development. The quarry was noted throughout the land as one of the finest in producing structural grade brownstone. I don’t know about foundations on the property from the late 16oo’s, but all of the existing houses on the property were apparently erected with brownstone from the quarry, placing them from early to mid 1800′s. The building style certainly seems in line with that. In viewing all of the buildings and while there are several apparent additions, there is no evidence of a “settlers cabin” in the construction anywhere, which could back a claim of early building on the property in the main or guest houses. Battles History of Bucks Co (A must read) in its Bio of Nickleson, states his father, a tailor in town, bought some portion of the land and erected a home. The 1876 map shows out structures down near the bottom portion of the property near the present location of the shopping strip. Maybe these were the original homestead, being closer to town. Who knows. In any event, the place must have been quite grand in its day …. just another shame on our community, along with Edgewood village, to allow historic buildings to crumble to nothing, almost always because of some bureaucracy.

]]> Comment on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008: Yardley, Abandoned by Genevieve Rosso http://www.yardley365.com/2008/01/23/wednesday-january-23rd-2008-overgrown/comment-page-1/#comment-3789 Genevieve Rosso Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:42:50 +0000 http://mlynn.org:8080/yardley365/wordpress/2008/01/23/wednesday-january-23rd-2008-overgrown/#comment-3789 Mike: I just got done watching our Yardley council members talk about the settlement of this 17 year lawsuit. The son of Mr. Scammells was there to thank the council members for approving the construction of 16 homes and that when he sold the property he never envisionned this to happen. He was visibly saddened by the actions of the developper to let it go to ruins. He talked about his childhood briefly, the days of great entertainment and some 50 weddings that took place there. When he was done, he walked to the plans, displayed on an easel board, and gazed at the drawings. The council kept referring to the "Quaker Group Developer" (maybe they bought out the last developer?) who during the last meetings, worked with the neighbors to ensure there would be no water run-off and that a tree lined buffer would give them privacy between the new homes and the older ones. The developer is also working with the Historical Society to conserve the main house and I think they mentionned an outhouse also. They will also build a sidewalk that will wrap around Newtown-Yardley road and Yardley-Langhorne rd but it will not go past University Drive to tie into Afton rd. The public asked the township to work with the borough to find ways to connect the two sidewalks. How interesting...my husband and I drove by slowly last week-end peeking through the trees admiring the stone house. Thank you for the close up pictures! Mike:

I just got done watching our Yardley council members talk about the settlement of this 17 year lawsuit. The son of Mr. Scammells was there to thank the council members for approving the construction of 16 homes and that when he sold the property he never envisionned this to happen. He was visibly saddened by the actions of the developper to let it go to ruins. He talked about his childhood briefly, the days of great entertainment and some 50 weddings that took place there. When he was done, he walked to the plans, displayed on an easel board, and gazed at the drawings. The council kept referring to the “Quaker Group Developer” (maybe they bought out the last developer?) who during the last meetings, worked with the neighbors to ensure there would be no water run-off and that a tree lined buffer would give them privacy between the new homes and the older ones. The developer is also working with the Historical Society to conserve the main house and I think they mentionned an outhouse also. They will also build a sidewalk that will wrap around Newtown-Yardley road and Yardley-Langhorne rd but it will not go past University Drive to tie into Afton rd. The public asked the township to work with the borough to find ways to connect the two sidewalks. How interesting…my husband and I drove by slowly last week-end peeking through the trees admiring the stone house. Thank you for the close up pictures!

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